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...lush green tropical treasure island, producing record amounts of sugar and an annual governmental income of some $350 million. Its exuberant Havana is one of the world's fabled fleshpots. The whole world dances to its sexy rumbas and mambos. Its socialites dine off gold plate, and its sumptuous casinos are snowed under by the pesos of sugar-rich playboys. The "dance of the millions" that Cuba knew in its brief post-World War I sugar boom is going again full blast. Batista brought off his coup at the top of Cuba's market...
Died. Clement M. Keys, 75, organizer and first president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and longtime aviation financier; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the post-World War I slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China...
...engines a month." (The figure, for jets alone, almost equaled peak U.S. production of aircraft engines in World War II.) The size of that goal could best be measured by Russia's arms-in-being: an estimated 40,000 tanks, 19,000 planes, of which 9,000 are post-World War II fighters, some 5,000 are jets...
...Steps appeared," writes Glenn (How to Find Health Through Prayer) Clark, "I have dreamed of writing a sequel to it." What Would Jesus Do? is Author Clark's dream come true-a dedicated, step-by-step retracing of Author Sheldon's bestseller in terms of the post-World War II U.S. Like its predecessor, it is a composite sermon preached by its cast of characters, many of whom are the children or grandchildren of the characters in In His Steps. Urged by their minister (grandson of Author Sheldon's minister) to emulate Christ, they react...
Died. Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 71, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and No. 1 U.S. geographer; in Baltimore. A precise and methodical geographical explorer, Dr. Bowman advised Woodrow Wilson at Versailles on post-World War I boundaries, served in the same capacity at the 1945 San Francisco Conference...